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“Bitcoin Core requires a one-time download of about 500GB of data plus a further 5-10GB per month.”
Why can’t we download this to an external drive and just plug it in once a week to update and for when we need to use it?
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You could prune it.
That’s the plan, but why can’t we just hook up an SSD once a week?
Because you'd be out of sync. Why does the bank call you if you write checks out of numerical order?
you sync it, once a week, you plan ahead and if it’s an emergency, you can use someone else’s, low time preference ethos for waiting to sync
Why would you download it to external drive? you could do that already
Because you don’t want to run a prune node and don’t have enough space, you want to make copies of the initial download for friends and family, you want to put a copy of the timechain in your pocket with your steak when you ski.
🎯 Few.
You can. Problem is validating blocks takes time. If you keep your node behind you might find yourself having to wait several days to confirm a transaction.
Also keeping it online helps others too.
You can
Why isn’t it ever talked about about? All I hear is run a full node on your computer or a prune node. It might bring people into the node space if they just have to buy a SSD and downloaded bitcoin core.
If the historical data must still be downloaded and processed for a pruned node, how can you do that on a 256GB machine? I guess an external drive is my only option here.
It deletes after it doesn't need it
Ok, so “the historical data must still be downloaded and processed, but will be deleted _afterwards_ to keep your disk usage low” means the full Bitcoin block chain doesn’t need to be downloaded and stored on your computer before it starts deleting the data?
A pruned node just stores the most recent blocks
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